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The Double Exposure Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · April 3, 1960 · 24 min · 3,915 words

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Johnny dollar how are you Mr. Kitty I am we all Nothing so just go on please really don't get him Mr. Kitty why call on me Well all you have to do is call a bank stop payment on that check and issue another I am afraid not sir Why not I well and it kind of means one of two things either this beneficiary is trying to collect the money twice

So somebody else got to that check first in which case we have a little matter of forgery on our hands Sure, Mr. Kitty why not CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigation. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special

Investigator Johnny Dollar. The Master's Insurance and Trust Company, Home Office Hartford, Connecticut. Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the double exposure matter. Expense Account, item one, $1.20 for a cab to Keeley's office on the 10th floor of the Star Record Building. These are I'd say short, stout, and rather pompous in his manner.

Or maybe self-important is more like me. No, I'm sure you realize, as well as I do, that a $3,000 claim is relatively small, relatively unimportant. I use that word advisedly. On means I can't expect much of a commission.

What's that? Oh, nothing, sir. Go ahead, please. Yes. The fact remains that if the claimant, the beneficiary, thinks he can get away with collecting price on the policy, seems to me he'd have to be pretty stupid to try a thing like that.

but to try a thing like that. Oh, you're right. You're entirely right, sir. Exactly the way I feel about it. And Peter Upman is not the stupid man, so far as I have been able to determine.

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